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iWork or MS Office for your Mac?
Which do you use for word processing, spreadsheet and calendar? How is one better than the other?
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06-10-2008, 06:38 PM
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I use OfficeMac. No problems. My son swears by Mac's Pages.
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06-10-2008, 06:49 PM
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Thanks. Both software programs are on sale right now at college bookstores.
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06-10-2008, 06:58 PM
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I use Office.
It's not a "port" of the Windows version. It's written native for OS X.
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06-10-2008, 07:01 PM
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I use Office.
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06-10-2008, 07:05 PM
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I use NeoOffice. Free & Compatible.
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06-10-2008, 07:06 PM
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NeoOffice here too.
Though I find myself using Google Spreadsheet (or whatever it's called) a lot lately.
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06-11-2008, 12:05 AM
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One more vote for NeoOffice, although it is a port of OpenOffice.org, the next version of OO.o will have a native Aqua interface, etc.
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06-11-2008, 04:33 AM
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You guys that use mac office and other off brands, do you run self contained operations or are these 100% compatible with MS Office and thus your customers/Vendors?
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06-11-2008, 04:45 AM
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 The Open Source alternatives are generally considered to be 100% compatible but in reality nothing ever is. Had a really severe f'up wit a developer that was using Open Office. Tracking changes did come over properly and we lost months of running changes to some documentation.
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06-11-2008, 04:52 AM
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FWIW it's not a brand pride thing, just a realistic question. If I sent my customer a file from iWork and they had a problem they would jump down my throat and rightly so about messing with what works.
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06-11-2008, 04:58 AM
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06-11-2008, 04:58 AM
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I'm using OpenOffice on my Mac now that you don't need X11 to make it run. Compatibility with MS Office has been fine so far.
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